Chapter 13 HILDA BY THE MERRYMAN FIRESIDE

Excepting Erma, who was growing into healthy, attractive young womanhood, Hilda found no change in the Merryman household.

Her room was just as she left it the morning she and Paul set out for Ohio. She was glad to be again in it, and was as tenderly welcomed to the home as if she were a beloved daughter, and dropped naturally into the place she